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Man Found Not Guilty In Sex Assault Because He Was Asleep
WKMG TV ^
| December 2, 2005
| author not named
Posted on 12/03/2005 1:17:49 PM PST by HighWheeler
Rape crisis counselors and women's advocates are outraged Thursday after a man in Toronto, Canada was found not guilty of raping a woman because he was sleepwalking at the time, according to a Local 6 News report.
Canadian lawyers said Jan Luedecke, 33, suffers from a rare condition called sexomnia. The genetic disorder combines sleepwalking with sexual acts and is often brought on by alcohol, according to the report.
The two had met at a party in 2003 and she woke up on the couch to find Luedecke on top of her.
He was charged with sexual assault after the attack. However, at a trial, sleep experts testified that Luedecke suffered from sexomnia.
A judge then ruled Wednesday that the landscaper was essentially sleepwalking during sex and was not guilty of the rape.
The woman even said Luedecke seemed "out of it" during the incident, Local 6 News reported.
"He was not normal," she said. "During the entire altercation, when someone touches you, you can feel their body heat. He had no body heat. His arms were very limp."
Four other women testified the Luedecke had previously had "sleep sex" with them as well, according to the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at local6.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: disorders; sexomnia; sexsomnia; sleepdisorder; sleepwalking
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Sexomnia?
To: HighWheeler
Damn, it never occurred to me...
I suppose it's possible, but these guys should come with a warning label.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:19:55 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
To: HighWheeler
But we're talking about sleep-raping here, not sleep-walking.
To: DoughtyOne
Hey - you do the crime, you do the time.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:24:08 PM PST
by
HighWheeler
(Death is better than taxes because death doesn't get worse every year.)
To: HighWheeler
subsitute she for he and that describes my EX-wife when we'd have our "altercations"...
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:26:10 PM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: HighWheeler
"He was not normal," she said. "During the entire altercation, when someone touches you, you can feel their body heat. He had no body heat. His arms were very limp."And she wasn't able to fight him off?
To: HighWheeler
Anybody that tries raping me will wake up to find himself bleeding, if he wakes up at all.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:29:51 PM PST
by
KarinG1
(Some of us are trying to engage in philosophical discourse. Please don't allow us to interrupt you.)
To: KarinG1
Anybody that tries raping me will wake up to find himself bleeding, if he wakes up at all.Mr. Clinton, meet Karin. Karin, this is Bill.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:35:02 PM PST
by
Cobra64
To: HighWheeler
Assault with a dead weapon.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:35:29 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(Sins can be forgiven but stupid is forever.)
To: Cobra64; KarinG1
LMAO!
KarinG1, would you like to bring the XPOTUS a pizza?
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:38:19 PM PST
by
HighWheeler
(Death is better than taxes because death doesn't get worse every year.)
To: HighWheeler
combines sleepwalking with sexual acts and is often brought on by alcohol LOL. It is fairly common, I would think.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:42:16 PM PST
by
sd-joe
To: HighWheeler
Just make sure it's laced w/salt peter
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:42:23 PM PST
by
snowman1
To: lesser_satan
His arms were limp.....And how about his other appendages!
S H R I N K A G E
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:45:14 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: HighWheeler
Canadian lawyers said Jan Luedecke, 33, suffers from a rare condition called sexomnia. The genetic disorder combines sleepwalking with sexual acts and is often brought on by alcohol, according to the report. Let me know when they discover a genetic disorder that allows me to rob banks while I sleep.
To: KarinG1
In other words, Don't mess with Texas!;)
To: Sacajaweau
To: HighWheeler
*****The two had met at a party in 2003 and she woke up on the couch to find Luedecke on top of her*******
It sounds to me like she was asleep too. How did she get to the couch from the party? I have taken women home but they were awake on the trip. They damned sure didnt get on the couch asleep.
To: HighWheeler
At least as good a defense as the "Twinky" defense.
What portals this opens up. Sexomnia??
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posted on
12/03/2005 2:08:12 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: HighWheeler
"sexomnia, thats what I got...yeah...thats the ticket..sexomnia"
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posted on
12/03/2005 8:28:15 PM PST
by
Khurkris
("Hell, I was there"...Elmer Keith.)
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